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A portrait of your father:

They don’t see you, because no one at the Foundation cares about the dead unless they’re in containment. All told, your adventure is far easier than Creed’s was, because it’s way easier when you aren’t planning on burying the person in an anomalous graveyard to raise them from the dead and equally easier when the person is cremated in an urn maybe two feet below the surface. You have to say that as much as you’re grateful for the ease of the exposure itself — not getting caught and fired was a plus — you really felt like you were missing out on an integral part of the whole grave robbing experience. When you lift your father’s urn from the ground and set it aside, you’re kind of disappointed, because you really were under the impression up to that point that you would feel some kind of regret once you had it above ground, or at least any kind of feeling at all, but you think about all the times your dad complained about how strict the Overseers were about body disposal and erasing evidence and you don’t; you just fill the hole back in, grab the urn and shovel, and walk back out. Wasn’t very exciting. Thought it would have been more interesting.

But overall, dad would have been proud.

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